Paul H. Chapman Map Collection (MC 133)

Scope and Content

This collection consists of some 250 maps of lands on both sides
of the Atlantic. The antique maps are facsimiles.

1 map case with 10 drawers.

Permission to Publish

Permission to publish material from the Paul H. Chapman
Map Collectionmust be obtained from the Columbus State University
Archives at Columbus State University. Use of the following credit
line for publication or exhibit is required:

23 This circa 1720 anonymous map of New France despicts all five
Great Lakes with major distortions and includes insets of Quebec
City, the capital of New France. The northern part of present-day
province of Quebec is fragmented by several imaginary
waterways.

24 John Speed's map of North and South America, engraved in
1626, presents Hudson Bay based on Hudson's voyages. It omits
details of the interior of Canada which had already appeared on
Champlain's 1612 map of New France.

25 The Grand Banks off the east coast of Newfoundland, long the
source of abundant seafood and now a potential source of petroleum,
are mapped in great detail on this circa 1728 chart by the van
Keulens, renowned Dutch publishers of marine atlases.

26 Canada Orientale nell's America Settentrional.

27 A New Map of North America. William Duke of Gloucester.

28 America.

29 Plan of the Town and Fortification of Montreal or Ville Marie
in Canada.

30 Port de Louisbourg dans I'isle Royale.

31 America, 1596.

32 Sebastian Munster's 1540 woodcut map snows that accuracy was
often not a primary concern of sixteenth-century map-makers. North
and South America are nonetheless clearly recognizable. What
appears to be Hudson Bay is instead the Atlantic Ocean misplaced, a
concept known as the “Sea of Verrazzano”.

33 Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia. Printed at Oxford,
1612

34 The New Netherlands and New England 1635

35 Nova Europae Descriptio Auctore L. Hondio.

36 Extract from the Mapamundi of Sebastian Cabot of 1544.

37 Oceanus Occidentalis seu Terrae Novae: Reduced from the
Ptolemy of 1513. Part of the Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula by
John Ruysch of 1508